This politico couldn’t wait to be elected before to commit his crimes, cops said.

Jeff Rougeot, write-in candidate for mayor in Paso Robles, Calif., spent election night in jail on charges of making criminal threats and brandishing a firearm.

He’s also suspected of four counts of driving under the influence and four violations of a court order involving domestic violence.

Oh, and he lost the vote.

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Sometimes, politics gets tangled in a web of intrigue. Other times, it just gets tangled in a web.

A spider web fouled a ballot scanner in Rehoboth, Mass., delaying the town’s final tally until Wednesday afternoon.

When the results finally came in, Mitt Romney and GOP Sen. Scott Brown won the town — but not by enough votes to spin them from losers into winners.

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The grim reaper passed him over.

A 57-year-old man napping in a Montana cornfield survived being run over by a giant harvesting machine.

The harvester’s operator felt it bump something — and when he turned the machine off to check, he heard the man’s screams.

His will require skin grafts, but a cop said he was “incredibly lucky.”

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Think you’re smart? Interested in working in the Balkans?

There might be a job for you consulting for Macedonia’s health minister, who is looking for advisers with IQs of at least 140, as certified by Mensa.

The other qualifications are a college degree, the ability to speak two foreign languages, and the willingness to settle for $64 to $100 a day.

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Israeli archaeologists uncovered what may be an 8,500-year-old murder mystery when they found the bodies of a 19-year-old woman and a man in his 30s or 40s at the bottom of a well in the Galilee region.

“If it’s an accident or a murder, I don’t know. It’s an open question at the moment,” one researcher said.